FUZZ BUZZ P.09 + ROUGH RIDES P.22 + RIVER GALLERY P.24 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 10-16-2019 • ISSUE: 42 • V.14 P.10 SPOKES JAY AND JOE WINE TIME It's not about the bikes P.23 Points of common interest P.26 Celebrate the grape P.34 34 GET OUT A brief overview of this Blanchard Beast Trail Race: 9am, Blanchard FOOD Forest week’s happenings Concrete Ghost Walk: 6pm and 8pm, Concrete Theatre 30 THISWEEK Gore and Lore Tour: 6:30pm, downtown Belling- ham B-BOARD WEDNESDAY [10.16.19] FOOD Community Pancake Breakfast: 8am-11pm, DANCE Blaine Senior Center 29 Sugar, a Cabaret: 7:30pm, Underground Nightclub Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center FILM WORDS Saturday Market: 9am-3pm, Concrete Community Write More Letters Club: 7pm, Bison Bookbinding & Center Letterpress Twin Sisters Market: 10am-2pm, North Fork 26 Library THURSDAY [10.17.19] Lynden Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Centennial MUSIC Park ONSTAGE Blaine Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, H Street Plaza 24 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Mixtape: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Market Square ART My Fair Lady: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Wine by the Water: 5:30pm-9pm, Hotel Bellwether Improv Mashup: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Ballroom 23 Brew on the Slough: 6pm-9pm, Maple Hall, La DANCE Conner Spokes: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts and Events Center Hoptoberfest: 6pm-10pm, Civic Way Sportsplex STAGE Sugar, a Cabaret: 7:30pm, Underground Nightclub VISUAL 22 VISUAL Anacortes Vintage Market: 9am-4pm, Port Transit Lynden Craft and Antique Show: 10am-8pm, North- Event Center west Washington Fairgrounds Lynden Craft and Antique Show: 10am-5pm, GET OUT Bellingham Handmade Fundraiser: 5pm-9pm, Northwest Washington Fairgrounds Lairmont Manor 98221 Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, throughout Fidalgo Island 20 FRIDAY [10.18.19] Bellingham Comicon: 10am-5pm, Ferndale Event Center ONSTAGE Upcycle Runway Challenge: 6pm-9pm, Settle- WORDS Scream Fair: 7pm-10pm, NW Washington Fairgrounds, meyer Hall, BTC Lynden 10 Mixtape: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts SUNDAY [10.20.19] Hellingham: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre BOB Matilda the Musical: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount ONSTAGE Vernon Matilda the Musical: 2pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount 8 My Fair Lady: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Vernon Squawktober: 8pm, Old Main Theater, WWU My Fair Lady: 2pm, Anacortes Community Theatre CURRENTS DANCE Murder Mystery Dessert Theater: 6pm, Christ Sugar, a Cabaret: 6pm, Underground Nightclub Get a head start on winter by watching Fellowship Church, Everson 6 Spokes: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts and Events Center Teton Gravity Research’s new feature- DANCE VIEWS GET OUT Spokes: 5pm, Firehouse Arts and Events Center Gore and Lore Tour: 6pm, historic Fairhaven length snowboard film, Roadless, Tues., Oct. 4 22 at the Mount Baker Theatre. COMMUNITY VISUAL Harvest Festival: 1pm-3pm, Centennial Riverwalk, MAIL Lynden Craft and Antique Show: 10am-8pm, North- Ferndale west Washington Fairgrounds POON MING T. OF JEREMY JONES BY PHOTO 2 2 Curator’s Tour: 1:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Light- GET OUT catcher Building Trails to Tap Relay: 9am Lake Padden DO IT DO IT Anacortes Vintage Market: 6pm-9pm, Port Transit Wild Mushroom Show: 12pm-5pm, Bloedel Dono- Event Center van Community Building FOOD SATURDAY [10.19.19] Identification 10.16.19 Community Breakfast: 8am-11pm, American ONSTAGE assistance, tasting Legion Post #43, Sedro-Woolley Scream Fair: 7pm-10pm, NW Washington Fairgrounds, Birchwood Market: 10am-3pm, Park Manor Shop- .14 42 Lynden samples, displays, ping Center # Mixtape: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts discussions and Matilda the Musical: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount VISUAL Vernon more will be part of 98221 Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, throughout My Fair Lady: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Fidalgo Island Hellingham: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre the 30th annual Squawktober: 8pm, Old Main Theater, WWU Wild Mushroom TUESDAY [10.22.19] CASCADIA WEEKLY DANCE Show happening ONSTAGE Spokes: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts and Events Center Sun., Oct. 20 at Second City: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre 2 MUSIC Bloedel Donovan FILM Take Me to the River Live: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Teton Gravity Research: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Skagit Symphony: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Theatre GAMING | DINING | EVENTS |GOLFLODGE |DININGEVENTS GAMING Must be 18 to gamble. 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In other words, one of the world’s greatest athletes Carey Ross 22 isn’t finished yet. music@ cascadiaweekly.com GET OUT Production Views & News Art Director: 20 04: Mailbag Jesse Kinsman jesse@ Gristle and Rhodes 06: kinsmancreative.com WORDS 08: Last week’s news Design: 09: Police blotter, Index Bill Kamphausen 10 Advertising Design: BOB Roman Komarov Arts & Life roman@ cascadiaweekly.com 8 10: Best of Bellingham II Send all advertising materials to 20: Climber’s corner [email protected] Rough rides OUTSIDE MONEY When Lisa was told by city leaders that money CURRENTS 22: Distribution I have analyzed the recent public records of didn’t exist to purchase the motel property, she 23: Spokes 6 Distribution Manager: campaign contributions to two rivals for Bell- dug into the financial records and produced re- 24: Seasonal splendor Erik Burge ingham City Council: Lisa Anderson vs Chanan ports that showed how much money was already distribution@ VIEWS 26: Common ground cascadiaweekly.com Suarez. What percentage of these rivals’ respec- being spent on emergency and police services to tive subtotals come from within the City of Bell- that location. Lisa fought to close the motel. Whatcom: Erik Burge, 4 28: Clubs 4 Stephanie Simms ingham? For Lisa Anderson, 80 percent, versus Bellingham Housing Authority will break 29: Film Shorts MAIL MAIL Skagit: Linda Brown, Chanan Suarez at 27 percent. ground soon to build much-needed publicly Barb Murdoch Something is unarguable from the numbers: funded housing where the motel once stood. 2 Rear End Lisa Anderson’s campaign is only 20 percent I congratulate Lisa for being an early driv- Letters 30: Crossword funded by donors outside Bellingham, while ing force behind this success. Now in her fourth DO IT SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 31: Free Will, Advice Goddess Chanan Suarez gets a whopping 73 percent fund- year on the Planning and Community Develop- ing from donors outside Bellingham. ment Commission, it’s time for her to move on FUZZ BUZZ P.09 + ROUGH RIDES P.22 + RIVER GALLERY P.24 c a s c a d i a 32: Comix REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS Grassroots? For one candidate, that “grass” is to City Council. 10-16-2019 • ISSUE: 42 • V.14 10.16.19 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku 73 percent not grown here. As a former member of the Bellingham Trans- 34: Wine time —Abe Jacobson, Bellingham portation Commission, I have experienced di- .14 rectly what is necessary in city government deci- 42 # ©2019 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING sion-making and funding. I can attest that Lisa Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly P.10 PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 I met Bellingham City Council candidate Lisa has all the necessary tools to be an excellent [email protected] SPOKES JAY AND JOE WINE TIME It's not about the bikes P.23 Points of common interest P.26 Celebrate the grape P.34 Anderson while working on the Samish Way Urban addition to City Council. Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing Village Plan in 2008. She was a board member of A vote for Lisa Anderson is a vote for Belling- papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution COVER: Bayou on Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material York neighorhood. I was a board member of Se- ham’s healthy future. SUBMISSIONS: Bay photo by Jessy to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. 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